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BY 

ANNA MAUD HALLAM 




Practical Psychology is Demonstrable Fact 
and Repeatable Phenomena 



OUTLINE OF 



COURSE OF INSTRUCTIONS 



IN 



PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY 



AS GIVEN BY 



ANNA MAUD HALLAM 



Copyrighted 1922 

BY 

Anna Maud Hallam 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS 




LESSON I Page 

Health Culture 
Formulas for the Cure of Constipation 5-12 

LESSON II 

Science of Cell Life. 

Intelligence of the Human Body 

Heredity — Prenatal Building — Postnatal Building. ... 13-15 

LESSON III 

Nerve Engery — Generation — Conservation — Application. 16-20 

LESSON IV 

Mental Influence 

Law of Suggestion 

Menopause 21-25 

LESSON V 

Human Analysis — Determining Your Type. 

How to Read People at Sight 26-28 

LESSON VI 

Mind — Conscious — Subconscious — Superconscious. . . . 29-32 

LESSON VII 

Psycho- Analysis . 

Dissipating Mental Complexes 33-35 

LESSON VIII 

Concentration Explained. 

Methods of Concentration 36-38 

LESSON IX 

Infallible Formulas for Entering the Subconscious Mind, 

with Definition of Each. Definite instruction for use. 39-40 

LESSON X 

Formulas for Rest and Recuperation. 

Child Culture and Formulas for Treatment of Children. 41-43 

LESSON XI 

Formulas for Cure of Disease, and Transformation of 

Character. . 44-47 



LESSON XII Page 

Methods of Treatment by One Individual upon Another. 

Scientific Faith. 48-45 

LESSON XIII 

Business Success. 

Determining Your Vocation. 

Finances 50-51 



LESSON XIV 

Business Continued — Salesmanship — Definite Formula. . 52 

LESSON XV 

Memory Culture — Brain Building. 53-54 

LESSON XVI 

Law of the Subconscious Mind as the Law of Life. 

Its Influence upon Public and Private Life • . . 55-56 

LESSON XVII 

Psychic Phenomena — Levitation Explained — Human Aura. 57-59 

LESSON XVIII 

Vibration as a Transmitter of Creative Force. Its Law 

and Operation. 
Telepathy . 60-63 



LESSON No. I 

Health Culture — Formulas for the Cure of Constipation. 



This Course of Instruction Has One Purpose 

That is to teach the law of human life from both a phys- 
ical and mental point of view. As we look about us, we realize 
that mankind has builded up a wonderful civilization. He has 
evolved the sciences and arts, and in his efforts to externalize 
has lost sight of the great possibilities of operating law, and 
making change in his own personality. Practical physiology 
is a science, based on demonstrable facts, and the operation of 
human laws. It teaches the individual to understand himself, 
the process of development, personality, and also lays open to 
him a plain understanding of the laws of his physical and 
mental being. For we have come to realize today that with 
man's accumulated intellect, the potentialities of his mind and 
brain, if he can learn to operate the laws of life pertaining to 
himself, as successfully as he has operated the laws of life 
external to himself, that he will be able to make at least a cor- 
responding change to that change, which has taken place in 
his environment. Hence, this course of instruction. 

In order to make a success of living, one must have a good 
physical instrument, in which to live, and through which to 
express. And the building of a good physical body, for the 
sake of perfect health, has five essentials : Four physical, the 
fifth mental. In our health culture lesson we shall now con- 
sider the four physical essentials for perfect health. The first 
is the proper use of air,, or the development of the lungs ; the 
average individual does not breathe enough. It is scientifically 
true that the breath is the life, and as we breathe so do we live. 
The following obtains, as we breathe sufficiently. First, the 
entire lung capacity is used; second, the entire blood stream 
is oxygenized, in which process the life giving elements of the 
atmosphere are carried to all portions of the body and the 
waste tissues are burned up, thereby cleaning up the system 
as well as nourishing the body. 

Too much cannot be said upon the subject of proper 
breathing, for the average individual begins to die in his lungs 



6 LESSON NO. 1 

because of improper breathing. The unused and undeveloped 
portions of the lungs become the breeding ground for disease 
germs. Not only is the white plague due to unused lung cells, 
but the whole system is starved and made susceptible to all 
forms of disease. Each adult should have two cubic inches of 
developed lung capacity for every pound of weight, also every 
adult should have at least four and one-half inches of chest 
expansion. The proper breath causes a swell over and includ- 
ing the region of floating ribs. The body swells out on inhala- 
tion and contracts on exhalation. A point to be made in behalf 
of breathing sufficiently is in the position of the chest. 
A drooping posture lowers the stomach from one to three 
inches, crowds the vital organs out of their proper posi- 
tion, compresses the lower areas of the lungs. The reaction 
upon the character of the individual who stands and walks cor- 
rectly cannot be overestimated. Are you afraid of the night 
air? It seems to be the only kind of air which God has 
ordained that we should breathe at night time, and so I urge 
you to be a fresh air enthusiast, knowing that it is true, as we 
are reminded in holy writ, that the body is the temple of the 
holy spirit. Also, we are admonished to keep the body pure 
and holy and, scientifically speaking, we know that a clean 
body is a healthy one, so in the words of the Hindoo: "Lift 
up your chest and breathe. ,, 

The second essential to good health is the proper use of 
water — water on the inside as well as on the outside. The body 
requires two quarts of water daily in order to carry off the 
poisons and to provide for the secretions. The individual who 
has not enough water will have a dull eye, muddy skin, foul 
breath, inactive brain and may suffer from one or more of 
the following so-called filth ailments: Constipation, indiges- 
tion, catarrah, rheumatism, colds and fevers. When the 
poisons in the system are not carried off through the eliminat- 
ing organs they are drawn back into the blood stream and used 
over again in the saliva in the mouth, gastric juice in the 
stomach, intestinal juices, and in fact, comprise the secretions 
in all the glands. It might be said of some people if they were 
no cleaner on the outside than they are on the inside they 
would be ostracized from society. Due to modern convenience 
of the bath in the home today very little need be said concern- 
ing the use of water through the bath. But as we are consider- 
ing the care of the skin, I would suggest two warm soap baths 



LESSON NO. 1 7 

weekly to be sufficient for cleanliness. But the tepid bath, cold 
plunge or cold shower daily is refreshing. Another way of 
keeping the pores of the skin open is the friction rub, which I 
value. The flesh brush or the loofa sponge (commonly known 
as the Chinese Vegetable Sponge), also the salt towel rub; 
any one of these is very desirable in rubbing the body briskly 
from the shoulders to the soles of the feet. It will relieve the 
skin of worn-out cuticle, open the pores, cause a good circula- 
tion, feed and nourish the skin, and cause a ruddy glow all 
over the body. A little explanation about the salt rub : It can 
be prepared by taking two quarts of water, add to it a cup of 
salt, thoroughly disolve it and then wring the heavy Turkish 
towel out of this salt water very lightly and hang it up 
where it can drip dry so it can retain much salt. One 
towel will contain enough salt for two rubs, or for use twice. 
It is well to take the friction rub before taking the cold bath. 
After the morning bath it is well to have some exercise; get 
out of doors and walk, or run for a few minutes, then you will 
be ready for the day's activities. Do not forget that a clean 
body is a healthy body, so let us learn to adopt such habits of 
living as shall keep us well and healthy, rather than so fre- 
quently lay up on the shelf for repairs or in common language, 
be sick. 

The third physical essential we shall deal with is the 
proper use of food or how to nourish the body, and at the same 
time prevent an unclean condition from a gradual accumula- 
tion of debris. The average individual eats too much ; in fact, 
the average person over-eats, under-breathes, under-drinks 
and under-exercises. It takes real character to eat enough and 
not too much, but of course, it takes real character to make a 
success of living. Our foods have been so refined and our 
manner of eating so abnormal that we have not nourished, but 
rather congested the body. Too many people eat in a hurry 
and as a result the food is not masticated, therefore the chemi- 
cal change, which is the work of the saliva as it mixes with 
the food, does not take place. Neither is the food ground 
sufficiently by the teeth to make it ready for the stomach. We 
have been called a race of hurriers and worriers. Let us learn 
now to slow down, and begin at once, most especially at 
the table. There also is a place and a time where all undesir- 
able emotions and unhappy thoughts should be put away, and 
you should be happy, or at least make an effort to be, lending 
that influence to those about you, and eat for efficiency. 



g LESSON NO. 1 



For those who are not well the following articles of food 

Heliminated from the diet for a period of six weeks will clean 

■up the system and rid it of the excess amount of protein or 

I nitrogen, meat, foul, fish, eggs, cheese. This gives the body 

^ a chance to throw off the congested condition, allowing the 

W secretions to excrete normally. Protein is a body-building 

M substance but we find very large quantities of it in the grains 

and vegetables. After the six weeks resume the use of these 

foods as you wish, but I am convinced that when you 

w have once gotten away from meat eating that you will never 

resume it again as part of your daily diet. My reason for this 

is that meat consume about as much energy in the process of 

converting it into ■Rrishment as it produces. It has been 

said by one scientist, man is the only animal that eats corps, 

or makes a graveyard of the stomach. It has been said in the 

past that man needs meat for endurance and strength, but the 

thinking mind of today has awakened to the fact that the beast 

of burden which possesses the Breatest strength and endurance 

of body does not live on animal flesh, so why should man? 

A selection of foods from fruits, vegetables and grains 
will provide every essentia* property and chemical for healthy 
body-building. As for stimu^is of any kind, if the absence 
of them causes such a reacti^nHs to give one headache or other 
unhappy symptoms, then I say eliminate the stimulants. The 
average individual will be well fed and nourished on two meals 
a day. Three meals daily is desirably only for the person who 
is engaged in hard, manual labor. If an individual is under- 
weight it is well to add one-half glass of sweet cream to some 
part of the daily diet. Be happy when eating, mentally joyous 
in the thought that your food is building up the cells of your 
body, making for health and building a good-looking body in 
its proper proportion. If over-weight drop down on the 
fatty foods, have plenty of out-of-door exercise, and always 
when eating realize your food is building strength and endur- 
ance into the muscles and vital organs instead of fat. Dark 
breads are most desirable because made of the unrefined flour. 
This includes whole wheat, bran, graham, rye and corn breads. 
The fourth physical essential is exercise. Exercise has 
one law — that of contraction and relaxation. There is a 
mental consideration as well as the physical consideration in 
the taking qf any exercise. In exercising, the mind should 
retain the picture of the results which you wish to obtain 






LESSON NO. 1 % 

through the use of the exercise. True, indeed, the mind acts 
upon the body, and the body reacts back upon the mind. Con- 
traction is a process of forcing out the debris and relaxation 
releases the energy and the blood stream, allowing them to feed 
that part of the body. And of course, as the blood rushes in 
with force and rapidity, it produces heat. Hence, the double 
value of exercise. I shall give you the few exercises which I 
deem most valuable for the above results and the proper play 
of the muscles. 

For the scalp: The rotary movement with the tips of 
the fingers from the center of the forehead over the crown of 
the head to the base of the brain, continuing this exercise from 
the forehead over the scalp, the left hand on the left side of 
head and the right hand on the right side of the head until 
there is a ruddy glow, giving evidence of a rapid circulation of 
the blood. This will produce a healthy condition of the scalp. 

Exercise No. 2: 

The rotary movement of the head by dropping the chin 
down on the chest and moving the head around, making as 
large a circle as possible; then reverse the direction of the 
movement, this will loosen up the congested condition in the 
back of the neck and the head and is a gentle massage for the 
glands in the side of the neck and throat. 

Exercise No. 3: 

The spine twister or the rotary movement at the waist 
line, keeping the knees stiff, moving the shoulders about in a 
similar manner as the head in the first exercise. 

Exercise No. 4: 

The liver massage. Take a full deep breath, put the right 
arm up beside the head and lean over to the left in an attempt 
to touch the floor with the finger tips, keeping the right knee 
stiff. You can bend the left knee over which you bend the 
body, then reverse the exercise and drop over the right side, 
the left arm up to the side of the head, keeping the left knee 
stiff and bending the right knee, holding the face up instead of 
down, always remembering to exhale as you go down, inhale 
as you come up. 

Exercise No. 5: 

This exercise has a remarkable effect by way of unlocking 
the vertebra of the spine, so, keeping the knee stiff, take a full 



10 LESSON NO. 1 

deep inhalation and exhaling slowly, you will bend forward 
with a slight jerking, spasmodic movement until the pull back 
of the knees becomes quite evident. Insist upon using this 
exercise until you can do it easily. 

Exercise No. 6: 

Stand with the body erect, heels together, hook the thumbs 
and stretch the arms well above the head ; make the hip joints 
the hinge of movement, bending forward and downward until 
the fingers touch the floor about ten inches in front of toes, 
then stretch upward and bend back as far as you can, keeping 
the knees firm and the legs straight. Inhale through the 
nostrils on upward motion and exhale through the nostrils on 
downward motion. This exercises the muscular system and is 
a good exercise for constipation and indigestion. Do this exer- 
cise fifteen times at first, gradually working up to twenty-five 
times. Be sure to bend at the hips and not at the waist. 

Exercise No. 7: 

Stand erect, chest raised, hips drawn back, heels together, 
hook the thumbs, keeping the arm straight, raising them up 
over the head. Take a big, deep inhalation, hold the breath 
as you lower and raise the arms in a continuous motion. This 
is a splendid exercise for opening the unused lung cells and 
freeing them of debris. Begin the use of this exercise by 
doing it three times, morning and night, gradually increasing 
the use of it. 

Exercise No. 8: 

The use of the colored balls, either imaginary or real, the 
size of large marbles, is invaluable as an eye exercise. With 
the eyes closed and first holding the blue ball in hand about six 
inches directly in front of the eyes, mentally follow the ball 
with the eye as you rotate away from the eyes to a distance of 
fourteen inches. In the same way proceed with a green ball, 
then a white ball, then a lavender ball, one minute each. 

Exercise No. 9: 

Get out away from high buildings and close walls and look 
away into the distance where you can have a long range vision 
through nature's wonderful foliage and your eyes meet the 
horizon. 



LESSON NO. 1 11 

Exercise No. 10: 

With the tips of the thumbs vibrate the little muscle in 
the inner corner of the eyes for about five seconds, then pro- 
ceed to move thumbs up under and against the bony socket of 
the eyes toward the outer corners. Let there be no pressure 
against the eye ball. 

Exercise No. 11: 

One all-around, good, general exercise is the stationary 
running, that is, an effort to run in just one spot. In other 
words, it is an easy jumping which wakens all the cells of the 
body, equalizes the blood stream and the energy. 

"Formula for Constipation." Drink one glass of water, 
either hot or cold, lie down on floor on back, bring knees up 
toward body so soles of feet are flat on the floor. With tips of 
fingers kneed and massage the stomach for one minute, then 
tensing slightly the muscles over the abdomen, massage it with 
tips of fingers for one minute, then with one hand on top of 
the other, the palm of the one hand against the body, massage 
with a slight pressure the abdomen, using the rotary move- 
ment — up on the right and down on the left — which is the 
peristaltic movement, for one minute. 

This formula occupies three minutes* time and should be 
used upon rising and retiring. For a very stubborn, chronic 
case, I advise its use several times daily. 

SUMMARY 

A little summary of this lesson. You are beginning to 
think along new lines. It may seem hard to change one's habit 
of thinking, but know this, that if you will stick to a new idea, 
though it be painful to think differently than the old-time 
accumulated ideas, you will find the pain turning into pleasure 
and the new habits of life will make you happy, will build new 
brain centers in your brain and establish the impressions in 
the sub-conscious mind which render you capable of making a 
success of life. Let us be among those who dare to think. I 
am reminded of the words of the writer : 

"How few there be of the thinking few who really think 
who think they do." 

There is a little health army in the body which has been 
called the scavengers of the body; they are the white cor- 
puscles. They devour disease germs. It is only when our 



12 LESSON NO. 1 

habits of life are such that there becomes such a rapid and 
vast accumulation of disease germs that this little health army 
is not able to handle them. It is then, I say, that we get sick, 
commonly speaking. A cold, a fever ; in fact, any contagion 
does not overtake us in an instant, but we overtake it. Nothing 
comes on us suddenly, as we say, "Right out of the blue," but 
it is an accumulation of a condition. So let your habits of 
life be such that in accordance with the principles of this 
lesson the little health army will be able to take care of any 
disease germs in your body and you will find yourself immune 
to sickness and disease. Old age, for example, is an accu- 
mulated condition, congestion in the blood stream, sediment 
accumulated in the joints; also, excess amount of mineral 
substance in the bone tissue are the causes which produce the 
effects or evidences of old age, as follows : Stiff knees, rheu- 
matism, sluggish circulation, lack of pliableness of tissue and 
bone. Very recently science has made such investigation as 
has determined the weakest organ of the body is builded to 
work at least 150 years. Now, we are learning to change our 
psychology ; in fact, we ARE changing our psychology. Which 
way are you headed? I like the consciousness pictured in the 
following lines of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: 

"One ship sails East and one sails West, 

By the self same wind that blows. 
It's the set of the sails, and not the gales 

Which determines the way it goes. 
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, 

As we journey on through life; 
Tis the set of the soul which determines its goal, 

And not the calm or the strife." 



LESSON No. II 

Science of Cell Life — Intelligence of the Human Body — 
Heredity — Prenatal Building — Postnatal Building. 

In order to study the body, which man has builded as a 
home for the soul, we shall acquaint ourselves with the very 
minute cells, of which this body is composed. 

Back of every living thing is intelligence, life, and these 
tiny cells become the covering or the body of individual lives. 
Each cell is possessed of life — mind, consciousness, and each 
individualized mind, or consciousness, operates or builds 
according to a pattern. 

This inate intelligence, with the inate desire to create and 
recreate, is to me one evidence of the fact that every human 
being is a spark of the Divine, a cell of God-consciousness. 

In order that we may arrive at an understanding which 
will become an outline for study, we shall consider this cell 
intelligence as sub-conscious mind. Now these little sub-con- 
scious cells have a marvelous ability to build like an architect 
and also a corresponding memory for action. They are ever 
active and vibrating. Did you ever think of the amount of 
skill and knowledge necessary to maintain and repair the 
human body? 

Ernest Haeckel, one of the greatest scientists in Germany, 
calls these cells "marvelous sculptors." He says they have 
the ability to organize and build perfectly according to a 
pattern. Professor Wilson, of Columbia University, in speak- 
ing on cell life has said: "These little cells which make up 
man's body, demonstrate phenomenal intelligence. They build 
as carefully and as true as the man who handles brick and 
stone in building a house. ,, He says they have memory and a 
plan for building. 'They know how to do a finished piece of 
work. Of such intelligence, he asks, what is it? Is it vital 
force? Is it spirit? Is it God? Practical Psychology has 
called it the sub-conscious mind, or sub-conscious intelligence. 
I call it sub-conscious soul. 

An interesting fact in connection with these little beings, 
is that when nature, or the sub-conscious intelligence repairs, 
she is so thorough in her work that she builds ten times in 



14 LESSON NO. 2 

excess of the demand that is made. As an illustration, in a 
broken bone, a ridge will appear where the break was, show- 
ing this excess in repairing. The sub-conscious mind con- 
tains patterns produced or made by heredity, pre-natal 
influence, and post-natal influence. Hence the cast and chem- 
istry of your body. 

Today we are compelled to realize that the mind not only 
builds the body but continually recreates it to make it what it 
is from day to day. When I say the mind controls the chem- 
istry of the body thereby determining the change of chemistry 
from minute to minute, I have told you the cause of disease and 
the secret of health. That is why the science of medicine has 
not gotten back of the cause of disease and while they have 
been specializing on disease I have been making a study of 
health. I am not blaming Materia Medica nor in any sense 
condemning the doctor. They have rendered us an inestimable 
service. But it seems to have been a patching up process and 
as I have made a scientific study of both physicality and per- 
sonality, I find the kingdom of everything worth while, yes, of 
all attainments, and that means physical as well, is within. . 

As a means of study of the cell life we will analyze the 
little single cell water organism known as the amoeba for 
the human cell is a water organism also ; as you know, 70 per 
cent of the body is water. Now, this little amoeba has a dis- 
tinct individual consciousness, also a community conscious- 
ness. Evidences of the individual consciousness are noticeable 
as this little fellow selects only that which is food and 
becomes nourishment; in other words, it shapes itself about 
food, for nourishment, digests it and assimilates it. It rejects 
poison or such substance as would not become nourishment. A 
moral here; each one of us as a wonderful organization of 
these cells should possess a corresponding ability in selection 
of food. 

Again, it has a means of protection; a sort of gas bag 
which it inflates to rise on top of the water or deflates to go 
under and shapes that little bag about its body as a means of 
protection from poison ; for example, if these little cells are 
placed in water containing acetic acid; each will shape that 
little bag about itself and be unharmed. The community 
intelligence is in evidence as certain of them work together 
with one building ideal ; for example, a group of them know to 
associate together in the building of a heart; others work 



LESSON NO. 2 15 

together and build the lungs, and others build the brain and 
so does the work go on so perfectly in accordance with the 
divine plan of body building that all of the cells do not build 
heart, all do not build lung. If an enemy comes in their midst 
they will chase that enemy and the one who catches him robs 
him of his life. There is a harmony existing in their associa- 
tion that if it were not intruded upon by the ignorance of our 
emotions we should truly find Heaven on Earth begun, the 
first evidence of it in the physical body, for the physical body 
is the outward crystallization of the personality. 

A summary of this lesson: The cells of the body are a 
crystallized form of the personality and correspond to the pic- 
ture plan on the mental plane. The mental plane being the 
causal side of all physical manifestation. Again, the mental 
plane is the noumenal sphere, the physical plane is the phenom- 
enal sphere. Therefore, the entity theory becomes the psychic 
side of the cell theory. Resolved : I will have a well, healthy 
body. 



LESSON No. Ill 

Nerve Energy — Generation — Conservation — Application. 

For the purpose of studying this life force of the human 
body we will think of it as a personalized form of universal 
energy and we will call it "Nerve Energy." It is the force 
which connects soul and body. It is that vital force which 
enables you to function in and through a physical body. It 
is that every-ready power which is acted upon and appro- 
priated by the thoughts, feelings and emotions. To the degree 
that your body is well charged with nerve energy, to that 
degree are you alive, for the little nerve wires of the body 
might be compared to electrical wires. Now, we know if the 
electrical wires are well charged with electricity we call them 
"live wires." The electrical system is a good analogy of the 
human body with the little chain of nerve wires or the nervous 
system. 

We shall study nerve energy from three angles; first, its 
generation. Nerve energy is generated by obedience to the 
law of life on two planes. The physical and the mental. 
Second, its conservation by obedience to the law of life on 
the physical, mental and moral planes. Third, its application. 
It is applied by mind power only. 

Its generation by obedience to the law of life on the 
physical plane is the consideration of the four physical 
essentials as outlined in Lesson I. The mental means of gen- 
erating energy is indicated when I ask, What is your psy- 
chology? In other words, your mental attitude toward the 
experiences of life. Your automatic or sub-conscious response, 
your emotions ? The emotions both generate and apply energy. 

The conservation of energy is dependent not only upon 
the physical and mental means of expression, but the moral 
also. What is your standard of morals? Again, what has 
race conviction or race beliefs handed down to you which has 
become a personal conviction and thereby a determiner of 
your very life force ? Are you able to work relaxed? Can you 
do the maximum amount of work with the minimum expendi- 
ture of energy, or are you one of the many who never 
have any reserve nerve force and your supply is constantly 



LESSON NO. 3 17 

exhausted because you allow any experience to utilize all your 
force? Every normal child is born with a surplus of energy 
equal to that of ten horsepower; by the time that child has 
reached the age of maturity he or she is physically or men- 
tally depleted to such an extent that they are not able to make 
a success of the business of living. As a result, today we find 
the average length of life in America to be from forty-three 
to forty-five years. The waste of energy in hurrying and 
worrying makes it quite understandable that eighty per cent 
of the normal children do not reach the age of maturity with 
sufficient life force to live well. 

The morals or uncontrollable or undesirable emotions 
play an active part in the wasting of that vital force which 
we call nerve energy. Such emotions as hate, jealousy, anger, 
revenge, grief are worse than a waste of energy because not 
only do they clothe themselves about with this energy but they 
become an AUTOMATIC phase of the personality. 

Another way of wasting this vital force is the abnormal 
sex life, which again is the result of race conviction. The law 
of attention is the law which governs the expression of energy 
and the double standard of morals for the race is one medium 
through which we as a human family have become depleted. 
We have been taught in the past that certain habits of practice 
were natural for one-half of the race. But I have to stop and 
ask you what is natural, and, answering it, say, that which has 
become an automatic rebound of your sub-conscious mind is a 
law of your life and for you is natural; but again we have 
thought it was right, and what is right? Let me answer: that 
which reacts back upon you physically, mentally and morally 
constructively, that is right. That which reacts back upon 
your personality destructively, that thing is wrong. 

The energy follows the blood stream and the blood stream 
is directed by the attention, so if a child is taught a certain 
practice he will build up the functioning of certain organs 
so abnormally that we might well put it, those organs and 
their functioning are over developed, and then we say, this 
is natural ; whereas, if the parents are prepared and qualified 
to answer that child's earliest questions of life and give him 
the constructive interpretation instead of leaving him to get 
that information at school or on the street, he will learn the 
law of his own being, which knowledge becomes a means of 
self proection; he will realize there are no mysteries con- 



18 LESSON NO. 3 

cerning his own physical being; he will have a respect for his 
physical being that heretofore he has not possessed. 

Both the growing boy and girl should understand the 
why of physical impulses. They should know that it is the 
energy accumulating rapidly and seeking expression. Teach 
that boy and girl, yes, and you yourself know from now on, 
that energy is the life force and becomes sex energy only as 
it is appropriated by the sex functions. In other words, energy 
becomes personalized in the physical body as it is appro- 
priated by the functioning of any one organ. Right here is 
the cause of disease and the secret of health, for as energy is 
congested through the law of attention whether it be through 
the acivity of the conscious mind or the sub-conscious mind; 
whether it be by the direction of your will power or an accu- 
mulated habit of the sub-conscious mind, a congestion of 
energy in any part of the Body produces an abnormal condition 
and as a result we find disease. For example, if the heart of 
the average male were as abnormally developed early in life 
as the sex organs are, he would not live to maturity. 

Most simple tests have proved that by concentration upon 
one part of the body we can shift almost the entire blood 
stream into that part; such a test as the following is very 
common: Place a good concentrator on a board which is 
balanced from the underside on a post and as he thinks only 
upon the solution of a mathematical problem, you will observe 
the head end of the board will begin to lower. Later, as he 
concentrates his attention upon running a foot race, the foot 
end of that board will be found to lower. 

This brings us up to the application of energy, which is 
by mind power only. Here it becomes scientifically true that, 
"Thoughts are things." There is only one way in which energy 
is applied and that is through the mind. As the author has 
well put it : 

"Man is mind, and evermore he takes the tool of thought 
and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a 
thousand ills. He thinks in secret and, lo, it comes to pass, 
environment is but his looking glass." 

What are your day dreams? Yes, and the night dreams, 
too? What is your standard in life or your goal of attain- 
ment? "The thoughts of today become the dreams of tonight, 
the actions of tomorrow, the character of the future and your 
final destiny." 



LESSON NO. 3 19 

The law of life is expression, not repression. So it is 
with energy, the life force. Its law is expression. The rnind 
is the mould; the body becomes the filling, or we might liken 
the mind to a honeycomb and the body is the filling, and the 
energy is the force applied by the mind to accomplish this. 
As the mind becomes the positive appropriator of the energy 
and we observe its operation, we can understand from a 
scientific point of view why certain so-called incurable ail- 
ments work out as incurable in the lives of those to whom it 
has been announced as their condition. The conclusion of 
this lesson is this: the strongest ruling impressions of the 
sub-conscious mind become positive commands to the energy 
of the body which is that vital force used by the cell structure 
of the body for body building. You will learn to solve the 
problem of your life today, if it be any abnormal impulse, by 
learning to redirect the attention. 

Insist on expressing the energy in a constructive way 
and learn self mastery through an ability to redirect your 
attention. When we as a race, can learn this lesson, there will 
be fewer insane asylums, reformatories and criminals. Our 
penitentiaries and jails will become a thing of the past and 
we will learn to know in the biggest and truest sense of the 
word that it is scientifically true that "As a man thinketh in 
his heart, so is he;" and the practical psychologist adds, "And 
so does he become." Since every thought, feeling and emotion 
clothes itself with energy and the law of Attention determines 
the character of the same, it is now time for us to give defi- 
nite consideration to the Law of Attention. Professor Elmer 
Gates once said that he has proved that it is possible to take, 
for example, an individual who is addicted to the use of intoxi- 
cating liquors and by directing his attention and selecting his 
environment he is able to change that man's habit to one of 
total abstinence, so that not only does he not care for it but 
it becomes repulsive to him. 

The following is an experiment of Professor Elmer 
Gates: He took six puppies at birth; two were placed on a 
farm where they were to live the regular dog life ; two others 
were placed in a dungeon, and the last two were placed in a 
room the floor of which was made of colored blocks; under- 
neath were wires charged with electricity so arranged that 
the current could be turned on to any color desired. As the 
light was turned on to a certain color the puppies would jump 



20 LESSON NO. 3 

on to another block; when the light flashed on to that color, 
they would jump on to another block. At the end of twelve 
months all of the six dogs were chloroformed; then upon 
investigation it was found that the two dogs living on the farm 
had developed the sight centers of the brain equal to that of 
the ordinary dog. The sight centers of the two that had been 
kept in the dungeon were just the same as at birth. The two 
living on the colored blocks had developed sight centers to the 
degree of six times those of the ordinary dog. 

The experiment teaches us this lesson : that forced atten- 
tion builds brain centers to meet the demand. What, then, 
cannot the human do for himself through conscious direction 
of the attention and the use of reasoning faculties. 

A summary of this lesson : A knowledge of nerve energy 
and the law of its activity will give you the realization that 
there is but one way to be well and happy and that is to live 
well. 



LESSON No. IV 

Mental Influence — Law of Suggestion — Menopause 

Human kind functions on seven planes of personality. 
Number one, the mineral; number two, the vegetable; three, 
the animal, and that is the consciousness of the cell life, or the 
three plane of the personality is the body building phase. 
Number four, is the emotions; five, the intellect; six, the 
psychic; seven, the spiritual. That brings us up to mental 
influence because as we realize that the law of the cell life is 
youth, growth, maturity, reproduction and youth again ; never 
old age, we ask ourselves this question: Why are people 
growing old? The answer is race conviction. As this little 
cell reproduces it divides itself right through the center, 
dividing that heart or nucleus of itself in two, so where there 
was one cell as it reproduces, (and here is a point) it always 
reproduces its kind, then there will be two, and where there 
were two, four; and where there were four, eight. The 
answer to our question is in mental influence for it is here 
that faith or soul expectation becomes realized in body build- 
ing and the mental influence is a direct command to the cells 
of the body for activity. 

The sub-conscious mind is embodied in the cells of the 
body. Every thought; every emotion; every feeling becomes 
a direct command to the consciousness of the cell, and this is 
how the emotions impinge upon the consciousness of the cells 
for body building. What are the strong ruling emotions of 
your life? It is scientifically true, "As a man thinketh in his 
heart so is he." This is the scientific reason why any means 
of therepy or any method of healing gets results. 

We will now study some of the ways or evidences of mind 
reacting back upon the body. The law of the sub-conscious 
mind is suggestion, and you have heard me say, the child is 
functioning almost entirely in that sub-conscious state up to 
the age of seven, and so much of the time up to and including 
the age of twelve, for the sake of the child we may treat him 
as though he were functioning entirely in the sub-conscious. 

True, he is making an effort to build an objective mind, 
but has not the use of one for the sake of a perspective in life 



22 LESSON NO. 4 

and an assistance in dealing with experience until about the 
age of twelve. This, of course, is the average child. Let us 
think of some of the impressions that are made upon the child 
mind as it is amenable to only one law and that is suggestion. 
Did you ever tell your child bugaboo stories as a means of dis- 
cipline? Did you ever frighten him with the dark? Did you 
ever scare him into being a good boy? How many of us today 
are suffering because of an impression implanted in the life 
when we were children. In other words, say only those things 
to children which you wish to come true in their lives. Never 
be guilty of such a criminal offense as pronouncing a sentence 
upon that child for any reason in any words that with your 
understanding now would become a verdict in the child's 
future life, for ALL are amenable to that law, not only 
children. 

During the war in the Philippines a condemned criminal 
was to be shot; some people who were experimenting along 
this line arranged to blindfold the condemned criminal ; having 
done so, they gave him progressive suggestion having arranged 
at a certain time to fire not upon him but in opposite direction. 
After giving him the progressive suggestion so many minutes, 
then saying he had so many seconds yet to live, they observed 
the effect upon his countenance and his physical strength. At 
a pre-arranged moment, which to him became a psychological 
moment, they announced the firing of the gun and simultane- 
ously with the firing of the gun in the opposite direction they 
gave him a sharp blow between the shoulders at which instant 
he dropped dead. 

Another incident is well known to the world today. In 
France a few years ago certain doctors were experimenting 
with condemned criminals; they took one man condemned to 
die, scratched the surface of the skin in the region of an 
artery, after having blindfolded him, arranged for warm 
water the temperature of the blood to trickle down over the 
body, giving him the progressive suggestion that he was losing 
blood rapidly and could not last much longer until at the end 
of a period of only a few minutes he dropped down uncon- 
scious ; dissolution had taken place. 

In both of .these cases nothing from an external point of 
view had been done to cause death. To what degree are you 
influenced by your environment? In other words, how does 
your environment become a suggestion to you? In how many 



LESSON NO. 4 28 

ways is the law of suggestion playing back upon your life to 
make you not what you would like to be but what you are? 
Did someone tell you this morning that you did not look well 
and did you think about it and do you know that it is the law 
of attention which makes this truism work out in your life 
and mine, that we become like those things to which we give 
attention ? 

Mental influence is the means by which and through which 
suggestion is implanted upon the sub-conscious mind. Let us 
have a definition for suggestion. Anything which reaches the 
sub-conscious mind becomes a suggestion to it. It makes its 
imprint or impression. The sub-conscious mind is embodied 
in the cells of the physical body. So we find that mental 
influence becomes a direct command to the cell structure of the 
body. Did you ever read the advertisement of a patent medi- 
cine in the newspaper and very shortly feel the very symptoms 
in your own body which were so clearly and definitely 
described in the advertisement? For example, how many 
people have sat down tired at night and taken up the paper to 
read, the following met their eyes : "A pain in the back means 
kidney trouble." Which is not true, but may become a sugges- 
tion to that individual as he is tired and in a receptive mental 
attitude and then he begins to wonder if that advertisement 
does not mean him. Nine chances out of ten one of the drug 
stores gets his dollar for a bottle, and since he responds to the 
automatic reaction of a suggestion he begins to feel better and 
then buys six bottles for five dollars. But, what is suggestion 
to one individual might not prove the same to another. 

However, if we could remember to use our reasoning, 
judging mind or intellect, the most of these undesirable sug- 
gestions would never reach the sub-conscious, or, in other 
words, by bringing into use the intellect we would not suffer 
the restrictions caused by promiscuous undesirable sugges- 
tions. In the case of the tired man reading the newspaper he 
would realize that a pain in the back might indicate one of 
various ailments or it might mean certain muscles had been 
overworked or a little nervous tension had produced it. So 
here, let me say, we need to learn to think for ourselves. 

Mental influence determines the activity of the energy 
for cell building. Did you ever observe, that when watching 
a lemon being squeezed before your eyes, the saliva flows in 
abundance, and you say, it makes your mouth water. The 



24 LESSON NO. 4 

sight of the lemon has become a positive mental picture or 
command to the secretive process. 

This lesson is designed to awaken you to the continuous 
work which mental influence is doing in your life. 

Are you not now thinking of the influence brought to 
bear by the physician upon his patient? The doctor of any 
means of theraphy produces a powerful influence over and 
about the so-called sick. 

Right here let me say, I am sufficiently confident in the 
all wise plan for man's evolution and unfoidment, as to 
prophesy that the near future holds such possibilities of con- 
tinued health for all mankind that the use of drugs in the 
physical body will become a thing of the past. And every 
doctor must have a knowledge of practical psychology before 
he will be considered a qualified doctor. 

Then he will cease to violate the law of health and life, 
which is the law of the sub-conscious mind; and he will see 
the folly of uttering one word about his patient which he does 
not wish to come true. For the sick person is functioning in 
a suggestible state of mind. 

It is a recognized fact today, world wide, that mental 
influence can produce any effect upon the human body which 
has been produced by the drug, and is being tested successfully. 

This is a day and age which is making a demand for 
greater efficiency. 

We have spoken of the first maturing period ; the adoles- 
cent. The second maturing period, known as the menopause 
commonly called "Change of life," is that period in one's 
development which makes a demand upon the energy for new 
channels of expression. This period in the life is nothing to be 
feared, for one should be well at this time as at any other. 
And with normal habits of life plus an intelligent endeavor to 
appropriate the energy and thereby redirect its activity into 
desirable channels of expression, one will find that any pre- 
suming symptoms of previously accumulated condition will 
have no lodging in the physical body. 

In middle life one should consider his ripe experience, 
not as an evidence of old age, but as a qualification for years 
of human service. 

The divinely appointed work of the sub-conscious mind 
is to refine the use of energy in the human body. 



LESSON NO. 4 25 

I am interested in a higher type of being for you, and 
when I have taught you the why of your moral impulses, you 
have learned that very essential lesson of control of the emo- 
tions which produces self mastery or physical and mental poise. 

This in turn appropriates the energy into a higher, finer 
type of building. Possess yourself of the inspiration outlined 
in the following lines : 

"Build thee more stately mansions, oh my soul, 
As the swift seasons roll. 
Leave thy low vaulted past ; 
Let each new temple nobler than the last 
Shut thee from Heaven by a dome more vast, 
'Till thou at length art free ; 
Leaving thine outgrown shell 

By life's unresting sea." — Holmes, "The Chambered 
Nautilus." 



LESSON No. V 

Human Analysis — Determining Your Type — How to Read 

People at Sight. 



CHARACTER ANALYSIS 



Character Analysis, or Reading People at Sight, is a phase 
of Practical Psychology that has developed into prominence 
among thinking people today, because of its practical use in 
business, in home life, and in fact, in any place where one 
meets other people. 

Everything about one talks, not only one's physical 
indices, but his mannerisms and the way he does things, and 
back of the things one does and says is his predominating type, 
the particular tendencies of which are always coloring his 
actions. 

My classification into five types is in accordance with the 
latest scientific knowledge. I shall give these types in the 
order of their development: 

First, the Alimentive, who has developed a good, neutra- 
tive system, and he likes to eat. He is fat and good-natured. 
He likes comfort. His weak point is his self-indulgence. His 
strong point is his good-nature. He does not like to work, and 
by means of his genial nature and ability to flatter and cajole 
he usually gets someone to do the work for him. His head is 
small in comparison with the body. His hands and feet are 
fat. His movements are slow and deliberate. He is not a 
brilliant talker, but he is a good jollier. He is not given to 
worry outside of his own comfort. He is harmless and good- 
natured. If he is endowed with brains he may amass much 
money. This type makes an easy-going husband or wife. 

Second, the Thoracic type, has developed a good heart, 
lungs, and blood vessels, and because of this has a high chest. 
He is quick in his movements; he gets you quickly; he under- 
stands your moods ; he is easily affected by your tale of woe, 
but he is so changeable he easily forgets it. His weak point is 
his changeability. His strong point is his quickness and 
responsiveness. He cannot stand monotony. He likes thrills. 
He likes new ideas. He likes new friends. He cares much for 



LESSON NO. 5 27 

his personal appearance. If you are attempting to sell to a 
Thoracic, bring him to a decision quickly and secure his signa- 
ture before he changes his mind. The Thoracic is long-waisted 
and may have red hair, for most red-haired people belong to 
this type. 

Third, the Muscular type, has well defined muscles, being 
builded more on the square than any other type. The Muscular 
moves with force and decision, with power and strength. This 
type loves activity. He must be doing something. The mus- 
cular man or woman is never lazy. He is emotional and "takes 
things hard." He is outspoken and does not care much for 
the fineries that the Thoracic would enjoy. His strong point is 
his ability to put things across. He is the doer. He will not 
sympathize with one who is in trouble, as does the Thoracic, 
but he gets busy and does things to relieve the one suffering. 
The weak point in his nature is his tendency to anger. 

Fourth, the Osseous type is raw-boned, and if he is a 
pure Osseous he is stubborn. This type is dogmatic, self- 
willed, headstrong. He shows in his brain the same tendency 
which he shows in his body — bone. He is usually tall. He is 
less sensitive than the other types ; therefore, he does not get 
as many impressions, and he accordingly responds to but few, 
while the Thoracic responds to a great many, because he gets a 
great many ; but while we do not like the quality of stubborn- 
ness this same quality used in the right way becomes one of 
the most worthy attributes. He has the ability to stick 
unflinchingly to what he believes is right. His movements are 
slow; he loves power. He does best in positions in which he 
does not have to take orders from another person. The Osseous 
is honest. If he owes you but a few cents he will make a sacri- 
fice to pay it and he expects you to be as honest as himself. The 
Osseous type likes to get a bargain. His weak point is his 
obstinacy. His strong point is his determination and honesty. 
This type does best when marrying to chose someone who will 
not interfere with him. He likes out-of-door sports. He is 
more indifferent to his physical well-being and his personal 
appearance than any other type^- 

Fifth, the Mental type. The brain is the home office of 
this type, for he has developed brain and nerves. The pure 
type has a head which seems large for his body. He is not 
fitted for hard, manual labor, and if he is born in a family that 
cannot give him an education, he is not fitted to make a success 



28 LESSON NO. 5 

of the business of living, because the Mental type is not prac- 
tical. He dislikes ignorance. He does not like for friends 
those who have less education than he has himself. He can- 
not be a success in any kind of work that is not mental. His 
weak point is his inability to be practical, and his strong point 
is that he thinks. He keeps abreast of his time. This type 
prefers to marry a serious-minded individual, who is interested 
in books and educational subjects. 

The above types, which I have just given you, correspond 
to the five systems developed in the human, and they represent 
the extreme types, or the pure types. The average individual 
is a combination of all five types, with one or two predominat- 
ing. There are very few unmodified types, but most are com- 
binations as the Mental Alimentive; the Mental Osseous, who 
by means of his well-developed mentality makes his osseous 
tendencies an asset to him rather than a liability. 

The cells of the body are all the time recreating and Prac- 
tical Psychology makes plain that you and I are all the time 
changing our physicalities, and also our types. As we learn 
our present type and how to develop the characteristics and 
tendencies which are worth while, but which we lack, then we 
volitionally change our types for the better. The brain cells 
are all the time recreating and the physical always conforms 
to any change in the personality, an evidence of which is made 
plain in the science of the cell. 

Specializing on any subject educates the cells, and this in 
turn shows forth in the face, the whole physiognomy. That is 
the reason that a doctor looks like a doctor, that the scientist 
builds a square head — Thomas Edison, for example. This is 
well illustrated in the jelly and the jelly-mould. The jelly 
shapes to the mould, and so does the body shape to the thought. 

You can become as great as you can idealize yourself to 
be, and your specializing along any line will show forth in your 
physical. In other words, hitch your wagon to a star — become 
as great as you will, and it will evidence itself in your physical 
likeness. 



LESSON No. VI 

Mind — Conscious — Sub-conscious — Super-conscious. 

We shall nowi study the mind, its laws, powers and pos- 
sibilities, for a knowledge of the self is obtainable only 
through a study of the mind. Professor Elmer Gates once 
said, "In the first place, beyond all other factors in impor- 
tance, I consider as foremost the knowledge which I have of 
my own mind." 

For the purpose of study we will consider the mind as 
conscious, sub-conscious and super-conscious. Every individ- 
ual comes into the world with a well developed sub-conscious 
mind and seems to function in that sub-conscious mind until 
about the age of 12 ; when, through an effort to deal with the 
external experiences there has been made such a demand for 
objectifying that gradually that individual develops a phase 
of the mind which we may term as conscious or objective mind. 
It becomes the reasoning, judging, arguing mind and is under 
the will control; it acts voluntarily; you may call it the 
intellect. 

Super-conscious mind seems to be that phase of conscious- 
ness which contains the blueprint for soul growth and develop- 
ment. It is ever active in the life registering the lessons 
learned. The super-conscious mind co-operates with the sub- 
conscious mind, as sub-conscious mind registers every experi- 
ence in detail : It builds a body about itself to meet the expe- 
riences of this plane. The mind has its various phases of 
expression, as is evidenced in the terminologies above. God's 
blueprint of you and me is one of perfection. We are in the 
process of building that perfect design. For want of a better 
terminology, we will call this process Evolution or God's way 
of doing things. 

Now, the child comes into the world without the use of 
this phase of the mind, but since it is true that the sub-con- 
scious mind meets every demand of experience, so it does in 
the early life extend its consciousness to meet the demand of 
objectifying, thereby developing gradually but surely this 
phase or manifestation which we call the conscious mind. It 
is a very small fraction of the mind. Our greatest study is 



30 LESSON NO. 6 

that of the sub-conscious, which we shall deal with later. 
Evidences of the conscious mind developing : Even the infant 
learns to look about, taking in its surroundings and, to a 
very slight degree, begins to objectify. Gradually does this 
awakening become a possibility, then a volitional practice, 
until one day that boy or girl reasons that Santa Claus does 
not come down the chimney, does not bring the Christmas gifts. 
Yes, and he or she also determines that the moon is not made 
of green cheese. About the age of twelve, that child has such 
a well defined conscious mind that it builds for him a perspec- 
tive in life, also becomes a means of protection and an assist- 
ance. God ordained that mankind should come out of the sub- 
merged self and, lifting up his head, cognize and recognize. 
In this process he has learned to externalize and thereby 
accumulate a wonderful intellect; mankind is the only form 
of manifest life having the use of an intellect or conscious 
mind; but it does seem that in the process of externalizing 
human kind has lost contact with the great sub-conscious. 

Now, this sub-conscious mind has one law and when I 
have told you that law, I have told you the law which governs 
life on any plane ; it is also the law which operates in the life 
of every individual to make him what he is and it is because 
of this law that it is possible for every one of us to be what we 
can idealize ourselves to be. Therefore, it does become pos- 
sible for this threefold promise to ring true in your life and 
in the life of every individual ; you can be well and you can be 
happy and you can be a success. 

The law of the sub-conscious mind is suggestion. We 
shall liken the sub-conscious mind unto a valuable estate. 
The conscious mind to the keeper of the estate. If this 
keeper gives his attention to some excitement away from the 
estate, an enemy of this estate might enter and, as often as 
ne would give his attention to other things, just so would the 
enemy accumulate until they could oust the keeper as well as 
the rightful owner of the estate. This illustration shows that 
as we allow ourselves to be interested and our attention 
attracted by such experiences (thoughts, feelings and 
emotions) as are less than not worth while, so do we find our 
great sub-conscious wealth controlled and governed. 

Again, let us liken it unto a factory and here we will have 
the conscious mind represented as a salesman who goes out 
from that factory; the salesman sends in his orders. If it 



LESSON NO. 6 31 

were a factory for the making of hosiery he would order so 
many gross of white stockings, so many of red, so many of 
black, and the various colors ; that factory will turn out exactly 
what the salesman has ordered and will ship in exact accord- 
ance with the salesman's instruction. Now, the conscious 
mind we have likened unto the salesman. The sub-conscious 
unto the factory. Let me ask, to what are you giving your 
attention, what quality of thought, feeling or emotion? Are 
you volitionally entertaining that which in itself becomes a 
positive and direct order to your sub-conscious ? 

Once more, we will liken this sub-conscious unto a mental 
garden, and the conscious mind unto the sower of seed. It is 
right here that it becomes scientifically true that "Whatso- 
ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." 

The sub-conscious mind is not under the will control. It 
is involuntary in its action, or, automatic. The conscious mind 
acts; the sub-conscious mind reacts. The conscious mind 
bounds ; the sub-conscious mind rebounds. So you see the rule 
of this automatic mind is to make everything rebound which 
becomes a suggestion or blueprint to itself. The sub-con- 
scious mind is the body builder and the body determiner. It 
not only creates, but recreates from minute to minute the cell 
structure of your body to make you what you are. 

The sub-conscious mind is the storehouse of all knowl- 
edge. It seems that one can go into this sub-conscious store- 
house and get original knowledge along any line. That is why 
I have said to you that "Down in the depths of your sub-con- 
sciousness there are latent forces and powers which, if brought 
into expression, can make of you a genius along some chosen 
line." This is why it is true that no one need be just mediocre, 
for I am convinced that God is no respecter of persons; that 
God is not partial, and it is not that some have luck and others 
ill luck. I have seen hundreds of people who thought they 
were of the ill luck kind, learn of the possibilities of this sub- 
conscious mind through the use of my formulas ; learn how to 
bring into expression their accumulated knowledge and there- 
by become an expert along some line. That is a secret of Prac- 
tical Psychology; human efficiency or personal efficiency. So 
shall we learn how to overcome our short comings or deficien- 
cies and in the process develop and unify a personality, which 
results in soul growth and development. For the individual 
who can, in the popular expression, "Put things across," or 



32 LESSON NO. 6 

psychologically speaking, set a goal of attainment for himself 
and work toward that goal, then indeed does life become 
worth while. 

In this lesson we have learned that the mind is ever 
working and that the brain of man never ceases to change 
and grow. Mind creates the body in the first place and con- 
tinually re-creates it for health or for disease. The character 
of the building at any time is dependent upon the character 
of the thought or of the mental picture. 

The following illustrates the sentiment of this lesson: 
A baby snake and a baby guinea pig were fed out of the same 
pan of warm milk daily. As they matured, it was observed 
that the snake had developed into a normal snake of its kind, 
having its poison. The guinea pig had grown into a normal 
pig of its kind. 

The point is this, the sub-conscious mind selects accord- 
ing to the strongest ruling impressions of the sub-conscious 
mind. This is the process that takes place all through life. 
This seems to be the operation of Natural Law, for Natural 
Law is accumulated consciousness with its automatic reaction. 

Now, you have each set a standard for yourselves. You 
have a goal of attainment toward which you are working and 
for the supreme purpose of reaching that goal, you should 
have at least fifteen minutes daily in concentration. Such 
time when you can be alone and undisturbed to picture and 
meditate upon ways and means of accomplishment. 

"As we look upon the grandeur of the mountains we ask, 
is there anything grander than these tall towers of the conti- 
nent? Yes, the ocean with its mighty power to overwhelm the 
continents. But is there anything grander than the ocean? 
Yes, the majestic firmament of the heavens, whose minor 
planets swing the tidal waves of the ocean at its will. But, is 
there anything grander than the sky? Yes, the interior of the 
human soul, the SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND."— Victor Hugo. 



LESSON No. VII 

Psycho -Analysis — Dissipating Mental Complexes. 

The subject of Psycho- Analysis brings us again to the sub- 
conscious mind for since the emotions are a direct rebound 
from the sub-conscious mind and we have not learned to con- 
trol the emotions, the intellect repudiates adverse emotions, 
it is here that we find the conflict taking place. There are the 
primitive impulses; impulses of hatred, jealousy, anger, 
revenge, regret, fear and grief. The intellect resents their 
expression; so, therefore, they are repressed, continually 
appropriating the energy or life force; and, as they are 

repressed, they dam back and congest the energy, producing 
mental complexes, other names of which are mental knots, 
mental tie ups, or inhibitions. Mental analysis is mental 
surgery. It is a process of bringing to the surface those 
experiences which have been the cause of the undesirable emo- 
tion and as they are brought to the surface and oxygenized by 
a qualified operator or mental analyst, they become dissipated ; 
then the operator readjusts the mentality and thereby the 
energy is set into new channels of expression and the result is 
that of health and happiness. This does not mean that you 
should make such experiences a subject of gossip to anyone but 
it requires an understanding mind with a corresponding ability 
to readjust your consciousness. 

I am asking you, is it not possible through self analysis 
to talk these experiences out to the great personality of the 
Christ and through your faith in his promise, "Lo ! I am with 
you always," receive the needed readjustment of consciousness? 
It is the building activities of the sub-conscious mind which 
become the building process of personality. What do we mean 
by "personality" ? An association of ideas or ideals working 
together under one blueprint or plan. To the degree that these 
ideas are consistent with each other does personality become 
unified, but when there is discord or the various ideas are 
antagonistic to each other, this produces «a split personality; 
for example, an undesirable emotion may become such a strong 
active phase of the personality but repudiated, by the intellect, 
it produces a conflict, and as it is given expression it grows 
stronger and stronger as a dominating force over the entire 



34 LESSON NO. 7 

personality, until the individual finds he has to plan his life 
around it. This produces such a split personality that we may 
term it, scientifically speaking, an obsession. An individual 
may have an impulse to steal, as he gives that impulse expres- 
sion, it becomes such an active force in his life as to control 
his experiences so that it seems to become necessary for him 
to steal. The drunkard and the gambler suffer from a corre- 
sponding experience. Not alone in the morals is this in evi- 
dence, but another example is that of a stammerer, the impres- 
sion in the sub-conscious mind made either by heredity, pre- 
natal or post-natal influence or environment has become an 
active factor in the personality ; it forces its method of expres- 
sion. Such a manifestation in the life produces a continual 
conflict which means a discord and reacts back upon the 
nervous system of the individual in a most undesirable way. 
As these conflicts in the personality are dissipated and the 
ideals of the life are consistent with each other we find as the 
result a unified personality and the intellect given expression. 
This is why the great Teacher said, "What doth it matter, 
whether I say unto you, 'Your sins (short comings) be for- 
given you' or 'Rise and walk.' " The principle disclosed by 
the Master in the above is plainly defined. For every restric- 
tion corresponds to a weak phase of personality. The one 
equals the other and the other equals the one. 

God has so ordained that mankind shall come forth from 
the submerged self and cognize and recognize, and in the 
process he develops personality. 

He becomes a distinct, individual personality as he asserts 
the self, and he asserts the self as he learns to think and accu- 
mulates a knowledge of natural law as it operates in the life. 

The sub-conscious mind contains the accumulated knowl- 
edge of the seven planes upon which man manifests. Former 
lessons have given these. At present man seems to be func- 
tioning on the emotional and the intellectual planes. The 
restrictions of the sub-conscious mind will be overcome and 
will be recognized in the unified personality as he learns to 
control the emotions through the use of the intellect. 

Volitional control of the sub-conscious mind or the cor- 
relating of the conscious and the sub-conscious will bring 
this about. This is why I counsel you as parents to teach 
the child as early in life as is possible the value of mental pic- 
turing or vizualizing, and learn the fathomless possibilities in 



LESSON NO. 7 35 

exploiting your own personality through the same process with 
a confidence that you are planting seed in fertile soil, and it 
becomes scientifically true that "What-so-ever a man soweth, 
that shall he also reap ;" with such a developed ability one can 
exclaim with joy, "What shall the harvest be?" 

As I have before said, you cannot idealize beyond the 
ability of your sub-conscious power-plant to prdouce. 

A summary of this lesson: We are always living. The 
process is called evolution. As man in research has extended 
his personality into the boundaries of investigation external 
to self, he has in every case learned the operation of a law 
and brought into expression an accumulation of facts which 
results in knowledge. 

"We all are fools until we know 
That in the common plan 
Nothing is worth the making 
If it does not make the man. 

Why build these temples glorious — 

If man unbuilded goes? 
We build the world in vain — 

Unless the builder also grows." 

— Edwin Markham. 



LESSON No. VIII 

Concentration Explained — Methods of Concentration. 

Before I give you my infallible formulas for entering the 
sub-conscious we shall deal with the subject of concentration. 
We have come to realize that any thought, feeling or emotion, 
in other words, any mental picture to which you give your 
undivided attention becomes an object of concentration. Con- 
centration is singleness of thought to the point of realization. 
The meditative form of concentration is, visualizing or mental 
picturing just what you wish to be true in the life. Under- 
stand, visualizing is not building air castles, for building air 
castles is planning always in the future; and you see that 
sort of concentration is in the future tense. It is well for you 
to have a period of at least fifteen minutes daily when you can 
be alone and undisturbed in meditative concentration. Mr. 
Edison once said, "The hours which I have spent alone with 
Edison have brought me the real big returns of life; to it I 
attribute all I have accomplished." The spoken word in con- 
centration is most valuable. Shape your mental picture in 
words which mean exactly what you wish to accomplish 
always in the present tense. 

It is through the medium of concentration that we' gain 
volitional contact with the sub-conscious. Concentration 
seems to be the key which unlocks the storehouse of the uni- 
verse. A definition for concentration has been given in a 
previous lesson, but right here let us repeat it. It is, single- 
ness of thought to the point of realization. It is not an easy 
matter for the average individual to focus all of his attention 
upon one thing or in one direction which becomes singleness of 
thought. In other words, the average mind flits about hither 
and yon from one thing to another. That is the reason why 
some people fail in an effort to specialize. 

We may learn a lesson in concentration from the Hindu, 
and, while he is not practical, he has a marvelous ability to 
center his attention upon one thing to the exclusion of every- 
thing else; hearing, seeing, thinking, knowing only that one 
thing, which becomes his mental picture. Now, we are always 
thinking, ' but in the past have not made our thinking profit- 



LESSON NO. 8 37 

able; someone sits gazing into space; you say, "What are you 
thinking about?" They say, "Oh, nothing.'' Or maybe you 
said, "A penny for your thoughts." Now, as a matter of fact, 
we have not realized that it is just as easy and more profitable 
to think systematically and with a definite purpose in mind as 
to leave the mind flitting about from one thing to another 
according to the objects or scenery of our environment. It is 
true that we are a part of God's plan and not apart from it. 

Mr. Emerson once said, "There is a mind common to all 
humanity and every man is an inlet and every man is an out- 
let." So every one of you must determine how you will use 
this mind or employ it to work for you. The law of attention 
is the law which governs your objects of concentration. Medi- 
tative concentration is the first and simple way of beginning. 
You should begin now fo have at least fifteen minutes in medi- 
tative concentration daily. By this I mean that you should 
have fifteen minutes set aside for yourself when alone and 
undisturbed ; you can sit down or lie down and mental picture 
or visualize that which you wish to come true in your life. 
Perhaps you have an immediate need; if so, let your mental 
picture be such as will meet its demand. By visualizing, I 
mean to mental picture or imagine in the present tense, for 
imagination is the first stage of creation, and as you build in 
mental picture so do you create on the mental plane the blue- 
print which must always precede the realization of anything, 
and as soon as you have created the mental picture you have 
made the real design or blueprint for the working out of your 
idea. 

With this knowledge, one could never stand back and say, 
"How can I picture this as being a part of my life now when 
I know it isn't?" As you have decided on the object of your 
concentration you will find it very helpful by way of keeping 
the attention fixed to use the spoken word. As you find the 
mind flitting about to other subjects of thought, for example, 
a new grown, a big business deal or family interests, use your 
conscious mind and volitionally and promptly return to your 
mental picture with a determination which produces self 
discipline. When you can keep your attention upon you goal 
of attainment so that other thoughts do not intrude and you 
see only and think only that one ideal, then you are in the sub- 
conscious, for that is fixation of attention. There is only one 
way to do anything, and that is to do it. 



38 LESSON NO. 8 

If you wish to learn concentration you must have such 
a desire for it that friends, banquets and shopping will become 
no incentive to rob you of that few minutes with your soul 
daily. Concentration accomplishes two things for one: it 
makes its blueprint in the sub-conscious mind of the individual 
and on the mental plane, it also sets into action the ethers in 
the atmosphere, which in their activity become the law of 
vibration which is the law that operates for the creation of all 
things animate and inanimate. Everything which we see is 
the outer garment of consciousness. 



LESSON No. IX 



Infallible Formulas for Entering the Sub-conscious Mind, With 
Definition of Each — Definite Instruction for Use. 

Since conscious concentration produces sub-conscious con- 
centration the first formula we shall study is the use of the 
spoken word in vizualizing. For example: Focus your con- 
scious attention upon something you greatly desire and express 
it in words audibly. Do this until your mind is actually 
focused upon that one picture or pattern. Make your word- 
ing such as shall express the picture in the present tense. 
Visualize in present tense. 

Another formula which will be mentioned in the succeed- 
ing lesson. Make your mental diagram or blueprint on going 
to sleep and fix your attention upon it till it puts you to sleep. 
We sometimes say to a child, "Count the little white sheep as 
they go into the fold," so the child will go to sleep. If you will 
thoroughly relax before lying down to sleep then assure your- 
self that the day is done and since God cares for the sparrow, 
how much more does he care for you? Closing your eyes in 
confidence and trust draw the mental picture of that which 
you wish to atttain; be it for health, finances or knowledge. 
Fixing the picture plainly in your mind as being produced in 
your life now, that thing or condition taking place NOW. It 
will put you to sleep and as you go into the sleep or sub-con- 
scious state the imprint of that picture is received by the sub- 
conscious and it proceeds without objective distractions to 
work out the pattern for you* 

Another formula which can be used to equalize the blood- 
stream and the energy. Go to an open door or window and 
take several full, deep breaths, then lying down or reclining 
with a timepiece so you can watch the second hand, relax your 
body and fix the attention upon the blood leaving the heart. It 
makes about three circuits through the body in two minutes. 
Now it leaves the heart, follow it on its journey through the 
body and back to the heart in forty seconds. This is a valuable 
formula for rest. 

Still another formula — Physical relaxation plus mental 
relaxation, plus conscious concentration equals sub-conscious 



40 LESSON NO. 9 

state of mind. Physical relaxation is first essential in order 
that the brain and body not be depleted under the strain of 
tension. Mental relaxation is not blanking the mind. In fact, 
it is quite impossible to blank the mind. The very thought of 
blanking the mind produces a picture the concentration upon 
which will produce sub-conscious state of mind. But rather, 
mental relaxation is relaxing from the thought and attraction 
of every object and picture except the one blueprint you wish 
to make as a design in your sub-conscious. Next, concentrat- 
ing the conscious mind upon it just as silently as the camera 
is set in attention and readiness in front of its subject this 
will place you volitionally in the sub-conscious state of mind. 

Again the use of emotional spells or moments will become 
a ready and easy method of implanting impressions in the 
sub-conscious soul. 

In the use of the above formulas for sub-conscious aware- 
ness it is desirable to arrange the clothing so that the attention 
shall not be broken by physical discomfort. Also shutting out 
the sharp light of lamps or windows in order that the eyes 
may relax and close comfortably. Then see to it before hand 
that you are not to be disturbed at this time. The few 
moments of going into the sacred chambers of your soul 
make all of this promise possible to you. "Ask, and ye shall 
receive. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened 
unto you." Specific methods of treatment will be taught in a 
later less'on. 

Sub-conscious soul possesses Divine intelligence. This is 
evidenced in the process of body-building. It seems to possess 
knowledge and wisdom which come only from accumulated 
experience, and why should it not have and demonstrate such 
aptness and ability — since you as a soul are a spark of the 
Divine, a cell of God consciousness, partaking of the attributes 
and potentialities of your Great Father? 

And your body is the house or temple of your soul. Hence, 
the Kingdom of Heaven is within. So is it psychologically 
true that the Kingdom of everything worth while is within 
you, within the great domains and sacred chambers of your 
consciousness. 



LESSON No. X 

Formulas for Rest and Recuperation. 
Child Culture and Formulas for Treatment of Children. 

This formula recuperation and your mental picture for 
same will be as follows : Imagine yourself standing where the 
water is rising up over you and see it as energy instead of 
water; as it continues to rise it will finally cover you or 
immerse you; as it does this, you will find the cells of your 
body responding to a corresponding immersion of energy. 
There are also other ways of entering the sub-conscious mind. 
In going into the sleep state or coming out of the sleep state, 
then, the many psychological moments of the life when an 
emotion or a shock throws the conscious mind off guard, and as 
we can learn to use these or take advantage of them by auto- 
suggestion we shall make them a wonderful asset in the life. 
As you go to sleep at night, take into the sleep state such a 
mental picture as you wish your sub-conscious mind to work 
upon while you are sleeping, for the sub-conscious mind never 
sleeps ; it is ever active. Only the conscious mind recedes from 
activity. 

On waking in the morning the half sleep state is another 
time for concentration. Auto-suggestion is suggestion to one- 
self. The question has been asked, since this formula can be 
used for recuperation, can it not also be used for sleep? The 
answer is, yes and no. 

The test has been made by psychological students and 
found to work out satisfactorily. Under such a test of a period 
of days it was found that the subjects of the test not only 
accumulated energy very rapidly, but gained in weight. It is 
not practical though, today, since loss of sleep produces sug- 
gestibility by placing one so nearly sub-conscious and the race 
conviction is that every individual should have at least eight 
or nine hours sleep, the suggestion from one's environment 
would be most undesirable, and this we cannot afford. So, 
for the present, we will say, have the usual eight or nine hours 
sleep. It is reported that Napoleon lived on four hours' sleep, 
and they tell us that Mr. Edison works on an average of two 
hours daily. Some individuals require less sleep than others. 



42 LESSON NO. 10 

In this way every man is a law unto himself. Personally 
speaking, I am convinced that as we learn to work relaxed 
we shall not demand so much sleep. 

The truly psychological moment of recuperating the body 
seems to be as one drops down into the depths of the sub-con- 
scious, in sleep. But you see, we maintain the mental picture 
in going to sleep that we are to stay there so many hours, so 
that gives you the reason for the demand. But again, I say, 
let us be of the pragmatic mind and until you can learn te 
work relaxed and have better control of the emotions, do not 
reduce your hours of sleep. It is in this sub-conscious mind 
that every individual, every human being possesses the powers, 
possibilities and potentialities of being anything. It is alse 
in this sub-conscious mind that the conflicts take place when 
an emotion is repressed rather than expressed and thereby 
produces mental complexes, and this brings us to the subject 
of Psycho-Analysis. 

All physical ailments are the result of congested or mis- 
applied energy. The problem for the parent of the growing 
girl and boy is one of directing their attention and teaching 
them that all of their impulses are the result of rapidly 
accumulating energy. If you as parents have answered all 
the vital questions of life for that boy and that girl you need 
not worry about their impulses, but give them the opportunity 
to express their energy in a constructive way. 

But if they have gotten their knowledge of life at school 
or on the street or their questions about sex answered from 
an abnormal and uneducated point of view, then you as parents 
had best seek to do not what you should have done when that 
boy and that girl were little, but the only thing left for you 
to do now, and that is talk it over and reason with them as 
you would with an adult and stimulate a confidence of real 
companionship between yourself and them; the splendid 
privilege of service which every parents owes his offspring is 
that of being their first real teacher and helping them plan 
their picture of life. 

When you have lost the confidence of your child you have 
lost your big opportunity for rendering him a service. Re- 
member, the child is always thinking even when you tell him 
to "Shut up r 

Another thing to remember, that the child's strong impres- 
sions, health and happiness are largely dependent upon the 



LESSON NO. 10 43 

emotions and the environment of the mother during the child's 
prenatal life. Both the father and mother should give special 
attention to happy environment. And the expectant mothers 
retain their energy and vitality for their offspring. There 
should at this time be no thought of sex indulgence to waste 
the energy and produce abnormal impressions in the mind of 
the unborn child. 

Formula for treatment of children. This applies to chil- 
dren of all ages from infancy up to the age of twelve. Children 
past age of twelve should be treated as adults. 

After the child has been put to bed and has slept for two 
hours, disturbing him slightly, and then in fifteen minutes dis- 
turb him again a little more; again in fifteen minutes a little 
more. Do this repeatedly until he seems to waken and, open- 
ing his eyes, looks about, dazed. Then is your opportune time 
for saying what you wish to come true in his life. Look right 
into his eyes ; speak gentle but positively and always in terms 
according to your usual mode of addressing him. Say exactly 
what you want to come true in' the life of the child, nothing 
more, nothing less. 

Abnormal physical conditions have been overcome by the 
use of this formula. The incorrigible child has been dealt 
with successfully. The child who is back in his studies or does 
not like school can be so treated and brought up to the head of 
his class. 



LESSON No. XI 

Formulas for Cure of Disease, and Transformation of Character. 

Disease is not a thing in itself and symptoms mean noth- 
ing. There are two kinds of disease; the acute and chronic. 
Acute disease is Nature's reaction toward contamination. 
Chronic disease is a compromise with an emotion or a personal 
conviction. In either case the sub-conscious mind is qualified 
to meet the condition and make ready recovery. This reaction 
in the past we have called Nature, and so does Nature do her 
work if unhindered and unrestricted; but since our habits of 
living and thinking have been so abnormal, impressions have 
been made in the sub-conscious mind for disease. That word 
"disease" means dis-ease, or not ease, or inharmony. Now, 
the body changes and modifies itself to correspond with each 
new experience or impression. 

It has been well said that we overcome misery only 
through a bigger comprehension. So in studying methods of 
healing it is in every case a matter of reaching the sub-con- 
scious mind with a new and definite impression for body 
building. The physiologist tells us the cells of the body are 
continually changing; that some of the softer parts of the 
body change in a few weeks, and that the entire body is 
changed or re-created in less than a year. 

These little cells build according to the strongest ruling 
impression of the sub-conscious mind. As an analogy, two 
balls thrown in opposite directions, the one which is thrown 
with the greater force will displace or misplace the other. So 
it is in the sub-conscious activities, for the strongest ruling 
impression becomes soul expectation and that is Faith. A 
psychological truism is, soul expectation is always realized. 
So after all, it is according to your faith. The question arises, 
is it possible for all to have this faith? In the past we have 
thought that it was God's will for some to be sick and others 
well; some happy and others unhappy; some a success and 
others a failure. As the dear old lady said, "If it is God's 
will that I should go about in an invalid's chair, and I can 
serve him in invalidism, then I suppose I must say, 'Thy will 
be done.' " 



LESSON NO. 11 45 

If this good woman had only known that every physical 
restriction is an evidence of the violation of God's law which 
surely is not his will but his displeasure. What did the Master 
mean when He said, "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard 
seed" ; and, again, did He distinguish between those who could 
have this faith and those who could not, or did He mean all 
when He said, "All things are possible to them who believe"? 

Now, we are ready for methods of healing. All methods 
of healing have succeeded, as they have in their efforts reached 
the sub-conscious mind. The man of ancient days who bathed 
in the Pool of Siloam and came forth healed; the individual 
who worshipped at a certain shrine and thereby received 
healing; the woman who touched the hem of his (Christ's) 
garment and was made whole; and the men, women and chil- 
dren who down through the ages have experienced a so-called 
miracle in a change in their physical body by bathing in the 
Holy Water; worshipping at an altar; receiving the royal 
touch; anointment with oil; treatment with the Perkins 
tractor ; the blessing of the Emanuel Clinic ; the laying on of 
hands ; the denial of disease ; the use of drugs ; the constructive 
affirmation ; or the visualizing with the use of auto-suggestion. 

Of all of these, I must say, "Thy faith hath made thee 
whole," and wherever any method of healing fails, the sub- 
conscious mind has not been reached with the new ideal. For 
in every case where the sub-conscious mind of the patient is 
reached with the new imprint or design, the rebound will cause 
faith or realization, and introduce a physical demonstration 
or healing to correspond. 

Today in the minds of thinking people there is no doubt 
about this and it is scientifically demonstrable. 

In a previous lesson I have given you formulas for enter- 
ing the sub-conscious mind. For healing, fix your attention 
upon that part of the body which you wish to treat ; in other 
words, make your mental picture of that organ or part of the 
body as being normal. This picture then becomes the blue- 
print or design in the sub-conscious mind, which in turn 
becomes a direct command to the cells of that part of the body 
for building. 

Meditative concentration is productive also. A time set 
aside each day, or several times a day if possible, when alone 
and undisturbed you shall spend a few minutes in visualizing. 



46 LESSON NO. 11 

Sometimes in treating oneself it is well to touch the 
affected parts, using the spoken word, such words of course as 
indicate your mental picture. Many have expressed their 
appreciation of the use of the spoken word in meditative con- 
centration ; especially is it true of the beginner, that it serves as 
a means of focusing his attention in concentration. 

Another method of self treatment is speaking aloud to 
the cells of the body; for example, "The cells of my eyes are 
re-adjusting for perfect eyes, for perfect eyesight, ,, and as you 
talk to the cells of the body have as much regard for them as 
you would for any other individual and give them your 
undivided attention. 

Auto-suggestion or mental picturing as you go into the 
sleep state ; also as you awaken in the morning and are in the 
half sleep state is most productive in quick results. It will 
assist you in self treatment to obtain a diagram or plate pic- 
turing the various organs of the body in a healthful condition. 
Perhaps your doctor book can render you this service. 

Remember always that visualizing is not mere affirma- 
tion, but is giving your undivided attention to your mental 
picture and always in terms of the present tense. 

There are definite reasons why you should learn to treat 
yourself, because in self treatment, as is always true in self 
help or self dependence, one develops character and personality 
and, greatest of all, gains for himself a working knowledge 
of law. 

For the correction of habits or morals the use of any one 
of these formulas will obtain results and develop self mastery. 

Turn your hair back to its normal color or speed up the 
activity of the pigment, also stimulate growth by mental pic- 
ture and spoken word, as follows: "I am combing my hair 
brown and thick." Again, "I am brushing my hair its normal 
color and much of it." Before a mirror as you comb your hair 
you can produce a fixation of attention which rebound from 
the sub-conscious mind will give you a realization. 

Learn to make use of the psychological moments in your 
own life as well as in the lives of others. Moments of fixed 
attention such as are produced by an emotion. And as early 
in life as possible make your thoughts, feelings and emotions 
such as will place you, mind and body, on a higher plane of 
vibration so that your automatic tendencies are toward health. 



LESSON NO. 11 47 

Since suggestion becomes the operator of the great 
dynamic forces of your life, never forget that change of char- 
acter can be made in the same manner as change of body is 
made. The great Teacher said : "What doth it matter whether 
I say unto you your sins be forgiven you or rise and walk?" 
It is the same process, the same law — the new picture in the 
present tense, by faith. 

The most effective method of treatment is indicated in 
the following: "From now on I shall learn to so associate 
with other individuals as to bring out the best in them." 

"In men whom men pronounce as ill, 
I find so much of goodness still ; 
In men whom men pronounce divine, 
I find so much of sin and blot, 
I hesitate to draw the line between the two 
Where God has not." — -Joaquin Miller. 



LESSON No. XII 

Methods of Treatment by One Individual Upon Another — 

Scientific Faith. 

Treatment by one individual upon another; the sugges- 
tion indicating the desirable mental picture for the patient can 
be given as the individual is going to sleep or waking; also, 
positive suggestion to the person when sleep becomes a power- 
ful means of healing of body or of change of habits or the 
fixing of a new ideal. 

Is absent treatment practical? The answer is in the fol- 
lowing: To what degree shall I enter into the life of another 
individual? Personal experience and observation have taught 
me never to be more interested in any individual than he 
wishes me to be (I am speaking of adults), for if I am, my 
efforts will be unappreciated and unfruitful. 

However, it is possible through concentration to get in 
rapport with the sub-conscious mind of another and make such 
impressions there as you wish to come true in the life, phys- 
ically or mentally or morally. 

And, again, "According to thy faith be it done unto thee." 
Just what did the Master mean when He used those words 
which, as they are interpreted in our language, mean Faith? 
Christ had a working knowledge of law on the various planes 
of manifestation; He was 100 per cent a unified personality. 
But one day He said, "If ye believe in me, the things which I 
have done ye can do also and greater things than these shall 
ye do." How can this be possible unless we in some way gain 
a working knowledge of law? To me the greatest thing in 
the world is that wonderful, most enviable comprehension 
which is the result of a working knowledge of law. Faith is 
sub-conscious awareness and we have proved in experimental 
work, in psychological circles, that sub-conscious awareness 
can give one a realization of health ; can also render one capa- 
ble of recalling the past ; also develops an ability to look into 
the future and scientifically prophesy. It seems also to bring 
one into direct contact with the Christ personality unfolding a 
realization of spiritual growth. 



LESSON NO. 12 49 

In this day and age when this slogan is becoming pop- 
ular, "Everyone learn to think for himself," the question 
arises, how is it possible for all to have faith, for each one to 
have a well, healthy body in which to live? The Practical Psy- 
chologist says, "An ability to enter the sub-conscious mind at 
will or volitionally, makes such demonstration possible to all." 

The question arises, how shall I know when I am in the 
sub-conscious state? Here is the answer: as you retain your 
fixation of attention, let us divert right here and say, the 
sub-conscious mind knows no other than to rebound with 
every impression as it is made, so as fixation of attention pro- 
duces an impression or indentation in the sub-conscious mind 
the rebound produces a physical and mental inspiration and 
aspiration which seems to become soul expectation. If you 
were standing before a mirror at that time you would observe 
the response in your countenance. It seems as though it is 
telepathed all through the being, mentally and physically, and 
you will awaken out of your concentration with a realization 
which equals faith. Fellow student, this is wherein it becomes 
scientifically possible for you to obtain all things, and the 
Master was saying the same thing in other words when He 
said, two thousand years ago: "If ye have faith as a grain 
of mustard seed ye shall say to yonder mountain remove hence 
into yonder place, and it shall remove. And nothing shall be 
impossible unto you." 

FORMULA FOR TREATING ANOTHER 

Have the patient lie down and relax. The going to sleep 
time is most effectual. Passing the fingers down over the body 
use progressive suggestion for from seven to nine minutes. 
Example: "The cells of your stomach are readjusting for per- 
fect health. The secretions of your stomach are excreting nor- 
mally. Your stomach is permanently better noiv." Placing 
the hands over the affected part make the positive suggestion. 
"Change taking place now. Better. Condition all gone. Per- 
fectly well." Leave patient quietly. 



LESSON No. XIII 

Business Success — Determining Your Vocation — Finances. 

Success in business is essentially one phase of successful 
living. The man or woman who buries his or her talents and 
then makes excuses for not getting on in the world, or that 
individual who may recognize his latent powers and abilities, 
but does not know how to express them — these people show 
forth a weak phase of personality — a lack. 

It seems that every human has inherited a tendency, or 
an urge, from the God, our Heavenly Father, namely, the urge 
to create, and God has endowed mankind with an ability which 
corresponds to that urge. That is in evidence as we think of 
primitive man coming out of the forest and building a mud 
house for a home and out of that early idea of home he has 
evolved the modern home, with all its comforts and modern 
conveniences. Out of the homely calf path of many years ago 
has been builded the Broadway of America's metropolis. So 
we see this creative urge expressing on every hand. Do you 
wish to be a part of this great wave of creation which results 
in human service and self-expression and self-development? 
This is an age when the forces of the atmosphere are vibrant., 
restless, impatient to act. Make today your opportunity. You 
can become a genius along some chosen line of pursuit. 

Determining your vocation is the first essential to success. 
Set your standard, establish your goal, then work ever toward 
that goal. Consider every experience a step toward it. Never 
allow an individual, or a single experience, to discourage you. 
Make good right where you are now, and also be looking for 
the new, desired opportunity. Use the going to sleep in com- 
manding your sub-conscious mind for a positive decision to 
give your conscious mind to know just what you are best 
fitted to do, and then expect the waking period to produce this 
in your conscious thoughts and pictures. Expectation is the 
soul's tool used to get things across to the conscious mind from 
the sub-conscious. 

The next essential is self-confidence, self-appreciation, 
faith in the self. Next, specializing, or self -qualification. You 
should make money, as there is a financial phase to every per- 



LESSON NO. 13 51 

sonality, whether it be expressed or repressed. To live in this 
world means to spend money for the necessities of life. The 
Christ was so rich in knowledge and Divine Power that He did 
not always use money as a medium of exchange, but indicated 
man's use of it and its service to man when he said "the laborer 
is worthy of his hire." Learn to earn money and enjoy the 
process as an expression of your divine talents. If you are in 
doubt, read the parable quoted in a» lesson by the world's 
greatest teacher, the greatest business expert, the greatest 
philisopher, the Divine Counsellor, Matt. 25 : 14-27. 



LESSON No. XIV 

Business Continued — Salesmanship- — Definite Formula. 

We all are sales people, all are selling service under some 
label. The question is, are you a good salesman — a successful 
salesman? Do you know the fundamentals of salesmanship? 
To be a successful, productive salesman, you should first con- 
sider your personal appearance. If you would attract the 
undivided attention of your prospective customer, present 
yourself well, then present your proposition intelligently. To 
do the latter means to keep abreast of the times, not behind 
the times. Be up-to-date on your subject. Next, meet the 
prospective customer, if possible, when he can give you the 
time graciously. Talk directly into his eyes and speak his 
name plainly. Having stated your offer, if he raises objec- 
tions, or excuses, do not give too much attention to his objec- 
tion, but rather keep in mind your original idea of selling him, 
and as he makes excuses or opposes your proposition, do not 
let him compel your undivided attention. Maintain a positive, 
confident, mental attitude regardless of the objections, and at 
your very earliest opportunity, in the conversation, say all 
over again what you said first in presenting your proposition. 
Sometimes people argue and raise objections from habit, dis- 
position, or to see how good a salesman, or saleswoman, is 
addressing them. Never be too anxious about a sale. The fol- 
lowing formula used correctly will bring your sales right up 
to the top. Here is the way you can make yourself a high- 
salaried salesman: 

Starting out to your prospective customer — speak his 
name aloud three times, then three times inhale and visualize 
the man's mind coming to meet your mind. Another three 
breaths, and on the exhalations visualize your mind contacting 
the mind of the customer. Again on three breaths (inhalation 
and exhalation), visualize yourself hovering over the customer 
and seeing him sign your contract, or closing the deal. Then 
say aloud : "For this I am truly grateful." This is a very posi- 
tive, not negative, form of concentration. Positive concentra- 
tion is the Key to Success. Always remember in the business 
of salesmanship that if you do not sell the other fellow your 
opinion he will surely sell you his and the price you pay for 
his opinion is the loss of the sale you might have had. 



LESSON No. XV 

Memory Culture — Brain Building. 

What do you mean when you say, "I remember, or I for- 
get"? To remember — What is it? It is the ability to recall 
at will, facts, data or pictures laid away in the sub-conscious 
mind by the conscious mind. The great cause of forgetfulness 
is in lack of observation. The essentials for producing a good 
memory are as follows : First, interest ; second, observation ; 
third, undivided attention. The lack of these is emphasized 
in the story of the woman who wished to place an order with 
the grocerman. 

She picked up the telephone directory to find the number, 
Main 2356. Closing the book she laid it away and went to 
the telephone repeating the number. When Central answered 
the signal of the receiver down the woman said: "I want 
Main 2365. The result was that a dentist answered on the 
telephone instead of her grocer. If she had looked carefully 
and noted the arrangement of the figures in the number then 
given the task to her mind instead of her lips she would not 
have forgotten the number. Now, if you have the careless 
habit of forgetting do not be continually re-enforcing the idea 
of forgetfulness in your mind by saying, "I forget," or "I just 
never can remember names." Stop doing that right now and 
give yourself the constructive suggestion. If you must say 
something let it be like this: "I don't recall it right now, but 
it will come to me." 

The same is true of specializing, studying, organizing 
facts and data in the mind. There must be the undivided 
attention. Then, too, learn to read in terms of mental pictur- 
ing, this will fix the ideas in the mind to recall at will very 
easily. 

The process of brain building is not difficult. Since the 
brain of man never ceases to change and grow it becomes quite 
possible to build brain cells to correspond to a new idea, or a 
line of study. Get the new idea. Enlarge and expand it 
through study, through associating with successful people of 
that type; through observation or other practical efforts; but 
keep enlarging the pictures in the foreground of your con- 



54 LESSON NO. 15 

scious mind. Live them as you eat, live them as you walk, live 
them as you go to sleep and the process becomes one of brain- 
building. A valuable time for reading and studying is just 
before retiring. The mind is very receptive and suggestable. 
The sub-conscious mind works very effectually during sleep. 
That is true in the repair of the body and also is true in build- 
ing or expanding brain cells. You can readily see that during 
sleep the mind is not distracted by continual change of expe- 
riences as in the waking state. The average child under the 
normal education develops less than 10 per cent of the cells 
of the brain areas. I have known individuals at most any age, 
for example, eighty years of age, to work out a new and orig- 
inal idea. Build the necessary brain cells for success and go 
to the top of the ladder of fame and fortune at a so-called late 
period in life. 

"You can mould and fashion the brain of man like the clay 
in the potter's hands. You can make him big and great and 
strong with fame in many lands." 



LESSON No. XVI 

Law of the Sub-conscious Mind as the Law of Life — 
Its Influence Upon Public and Private Life. 

Let brotherly love and human service be the slogan of 
your life, knowing that each shall reap his own harvest and 
you need not worry about the judgment or remuneration for 
another individual, for it is scientifically true through the 
law of the sub-conscious mind and its operation that everyone 
shall reap as he has sown. Right here let us learn something 
of human service. You have not a duty to anyone but you 
have a splendid privilege of service to everyone with whom 
you associate. Service is two-fold in its reaction. The one 
who is served and the one who serves; both must be blest. 
Where service is one sided it is not service, it is catering. Or, 
in other words, it is pandering to another individual's weak- 
ness or shortcoming. We all are seeking poise. Now, the 
attributes of poise are five in number. They are, confidence, 
self-assertiveness, tolerance, unselfishness and love. There is 
a fine line of distinction between tolerance and catering, and 
you will notice that self-assertiveness and tolerance go hand 
in hand; in fact, these five attributes seem to be like a chain, 
each link needs the other to complete its strength. Too many 
times we camouflage a shortcoming of our own under the 
guise of self sacrifice, when if the truth were exposed we are 
too indolent, yes, to emphasize it, we will say, too lazy to 
assert our own individuality and thereby produce something 
commendable in the life of the other individual. 

There is such a thing as "casting your pearls before 
swine." Sometimes we wear out the possibility of our service 
to certain individuals ; then we need to get out of the way ; lend 
our service in another direction where it becomes real service 
and produces good association and thereby leave an opening 
in our former environment for someone to enter whose tem- 
perament and personality render them capable of real service 
in that capacity. In no instance is it ever a matter of dominat- 
ing a situation ; service is not forced attention. The reciprocal 
law is, "Do unto others as you would they would do unto you." 

The law of cause and effect makes us a part of natural 
law and not apart from it. Natural law is the outward expres- 
sion of divine will. It has been my experience that spiritual 
unfoldment is soul growth and development, and that we gain 
soul growth and development through knowledge and under- 



56 LESSON NO. 16 

standing. It is in evidence in a broader comprehension of life. 
Are you endeavoring to understand life as the great psychol- 
ogist taught two thousand years ago? Does the flower of the 
field, does the bird in the tree, does everything which has being 
and expresses God consciousness or life receive a response 
from an understanding phase of your personality? This, fellow 
student, is knowing God, whom to know is life eternal. If I 
could tell you what I see in your aura, what I read in your 
personality, what the fruit of your life indicates, I would have 
taken stock of your disabilities and liabilities, the sum total of 
which equals your spirituality. Through concentration, or 
contact with the sub-conscious mind one may not only achieve 
inspiration and aspiration, but also methods of procedure 
through which the results of your activities will become more 
satisfying and there will be a satisfaction and gratification of 
that yearning for spiritual development. 

Let me ask you, are you willing to pay the price for that 
stage of development or spiritual attainment which you think 
you idealize? To know the Christ is to know His laws, His 
teachings, and express them. Begin right now to overcome 
ignorance, not by measuring with the chalk mark of personal 
opinion, but with comprehension. In this way and in this 
way only can you scale the heights which lift you from day to 
day on to a higher plane of vibration. And so may you become 
all that you can idealize. 

A summary of this lesson : Real and permanent success 
in life is growing.. Learn to take a rational attitude toward 
the events of life. 

Have an ever abiding confidence and know that this voy- 
age of life is much like a voyage on the ocean. There are the 
high tides and the low tides, and the low tides and the high 
tides. The Way 

"To every man there openeth 

A way, and ways, and a way, 
And the high soul climbs the high way, 

And the low soul gropes the low ; 
And in between on the misty flats, 

The rest drift to and fro. 
But to every man there openeth 

A high way and a low, 
And every man decideth 

The way his soul shall go." — John Oxenham. 



LESSON No. XVII 

Psychic Phenomena — Leviation Explained — Human Aura. 

It has been said that the last word of science becomes the 
first word of Practical Psychology and that the last word of 
Practical Psychology is the first word of Religion. Now, the 
scientist sees nothing demonstrable but matter or substance. 
Because of this, he has been termed the Materialist. The 
Religionist has experienced a confidence in an unseen force, not 
knowing the how or the why of the operation of this force, but 
to the degree to which he has believed or had faith, he has 
gotten results. The Practical Psychologist comes along and, 
making an effort to understand the law of life from the scien- 
tist's point of view, also the religionist's point of view, he says, 
both are right; each one can demonstrate in his own way. 
The Practical Psychologist recognizing the law of vibration, or 
fourth dimension, understands that when the scientist pro- 
duces the X-ray, why its service is restricted. As we all know, 
the distance of the X-ray is limited. Now, the pineal gland 
to which we have referred expresses the psychic sense, 
registers the finer vibrations; therefore, the various 
manifestations of this psychic sense, clairvoyance, and 
clairaudience and intuition seem to be unrestricted. As we 
are able to register the finer rates and character of vibration 
volitionally, we shall understand the law operating back of 
the Christian's faith. The Practical Psychologist says, "You 
should have a reason for the faith that is within you; you 
should learn to know the why of any phenomena and that all 
phenomena indicates the operation of a law back of it ; if you 
believe in anything, you should have an intelligent understand- 
ing as to why you believe." That psychic sense is able to 
observe the finer vibrations such as exist only on the mental 
plane. There is, however, a fine line of distinction between 
this demonstration and that of the workings of the sub-con- 
scious mind ; for instance, we have said the sub-conscious mind 
meets the demand of experience. Your sub-conscious mind 
is able to produce for you an outline or picture of whatever 
demand your conscious mind or emotions may make upon it. 
This higher sense has also the ability to register sound. It 



58 LESSON NO. 17 

does seem that it is possible to extend the consciousness and 
travel away from one's immediate environment and through 
this higher sense register such mental pictures, which as they 
develop into outward phenomena or physical manifestation 
correspond to the accumulation of facts obtained from the 
mental picture on the mental plane. This we call scientific 
prophecy. 

Intuition, which we have termed premonition or com- 
monly called "a hunch, " is an ability to sense the dictations of 
the super-conscious mind. 

A summary of this lesson follows : We have been dealing 
directly with the sub-conscious mind, as is always true in case 
of treatment where results are obtained. 

You will notice that the underlying thread all through 
this lesson is designed to weave into a pattern for self develop- 
ment. 

Another evidence of ability to register finer vibrations is 
in psychometry, which is the ability to sense the vibrations of 
another individual. By this we mean, the psychic may take 
an article belonging to another individual which has become 
sensitized for the vibrations of the other and describe to a 
nicety that individual's characteristics and emotions. As one 
learns to control the emotions they bring into expression this 
higher sense with all of its methods of service, not merely one. 
To be able to recall the past at will ; to look into the future and 
avoid so-called accidents; to get in rapport with other indi- 
viduals at a distance or communicate with them; all of these 
shall render us a service in progression toward the super 
human stage of development. As a higher type of thought 
and emotion raises our standard to a higher plane of vibration 
(and this should be one's endeavor) we shall see and hear and 
know those things which render us a service only. Each 
of us is a certain rate and character of vibration, both the 
mind and body. Each one is both a sending and receiving 
instrument. That wonderful instrument on Point Loma is a 
fine example of sending and receiving forces. Everyone has 
his key or note of vibration. The psychic is able to determine 
the character of the predominant emotions of an individual by 
the shades of color in the vibration about him. Personal 
magnetism is the extension of the personality felt by one's 
environment. The aura is the shade of colors indicating that 
magnetism. In the past you have met an individual of whom 



LESSON NO. 17 59 

you have said, "I like him (or her)," or "I don't like him (or 
her) ." The fact is this : while you did not know him (or her) , 
their personality was repulsive to you, as you sensed their 
magnetism, and herein we recognize chemistry of personality. 
The difference in the chemistry of personality is found in the 
same source as the chemistry of physicality, which is the char- 
acter of the emotions. Now, some personalities blend har- 
moniously; others blend like oil and water or antagonize each 
other. Science is proving daily that there are no mysteries. 
Dr. Albert Abrams has recently completed a meter which 
receives and registers energy. Each material force has its 
own wave length. Through the use of this meter it is found 
that one brain in concentration has the lifting power of four- 
fifths of a pound ; two brains united in concentration have the 
lifting power of six and two- thirds pounds; three brains con- 
centrating together, seventy-three and one-third pounds. Can 
you not understand how some of the so-called mysterious 
things are produced? Also, the scientific meaning back of 
those words uttered by the Great Teacher when He said, 
"Where two or three are gathered together in my name." 
Levitation is as scientifically demonstrable as gravitation. 

Soul expectation is always realized. This becomes true 
on every plane of manifestation. Did you have a horoscope 
cast and is it all coming to pass? The stars incline but they 
do not compel. The plane of vibration on which your personal- 
ity vibrates is indicated in certain astrological signs. Astron- 
omy, Phrenology, Palmistry, all are indicators of your person- 
ality. Change the personality and these indications change. 

Visualizing organizes a psychic force or psychic entities 
as co-workers on the psychic plane. 

Develop a confidence of protection through emotional con- 
trol and poise. 



LESSON No. XVIII 

Vibration as a Transmitter of Creative Force — Its Laws and 

Operation — Telepathy. 

The scientist has said, the only difference between ani- 
mate and inanimate things is a difference in the rate and char- 
acter of their vibration. The scientist has reduced all sub- 
stances down to the electron. The student of Practical Psy- 
chology comes along with this inquiry and asks : "What is it 
that sets the electrons into a swirl of activity which would 
produce any rate and character of vibration?'' He is pre- 
pared to answer his own question, and says, "All space is 
filled with ether and it is the mind by way of a thought, feel- 
ing or emotion which disturbs into action the ethers of the 
atmosphere, their character of vibration and quality always 
corresponds to the mental picture which disturbs them into 
action." 

For an illustration we might liken the ethers in the atmos- 
phere to the water of the ocean and the thought or mental pic- 
ture like unto a stone that you would throw into the ocean. 
Have you ever watched as you cast a stone into the water, 
that it forms a lot of small circles on the water ; then gradually 
those small circles unite in large circles and these again unite 
in larger circles? So it is in the ethers. They are set into a 
fury of action. They build first the little circles or associations 
called molecules, uniting into larger circles of activity we will 
call them atoms; then into larger circles and they are known 
as electrons; so do the electrons become mentones and if the 
vibration is produced for body building under observation you 
would be able to know that mentones form into cells and the 
cells into organs and the organs into body. 

So is the process of creation, and so does it become true 
as the man of old suggested when he asked, "Know ye not 
that ye are co-workers together with God?" So are we con- 
tinually creating and thereby become creators. Can we not 
now understand that "Thoughts are things?" As Ella Wheeler 
Wilcox wrote, 



LESSON NO. 18 61 

"I hold it true that thoughts are things, 
Endowed with bodies, breath and wings, 
And that we send them forth to fill 
The world with good results or ill; 

That which we call our secret thought 
Speeds to Earth's remotest spot, 
And leaves its blessings or its woes 
Like tracks behind it as it goes. 

We build our future, thought by thought, 
For good or ill, yet know it not. 
Yet, so the universe was wrought. 
Thought is another name for fate; 
Choose then thy destiny and wait, 
For love brings love and hate brings hate." 

When we have learned the emotional lesson of this plane, 
we shall find that we will be able to register the finer vibra- 
tions. There is a little gland located in the center of the head 
known as the pineal gland; it seems to registerthe finer vibra- 
tions and brings into expression the psychic sense. Of this 
psychic sense we shall study later. 

When you have learned to build your future through 
volitional and intelligent concentration you have learned how 
volitionally to operate the law of vibration. The ethers in 
the atmosphere seem to be the repository of all creative force ; 
they seem, also, to contain the law of operation and today 
we see the Science of Practical Psychology demonstrating this 
creative law. 

Everyone is attuned to a certain key or note ; they vibrate 
on a certain plane. Therefore, if we wish to raise our stand- 
ard of living, let us make use of every method of bringing the 
self up to a higher plane of vibration. You can do so in two 
ways; first, by making your day dreams and choosing your 
books and associates with a view to high attainment ; secondly, 
through concentration in the half sleep state. 

I must really add a third method and that is, to have the 
courage of your convictions and as you go out into your daily 
activities, do so with a determination to make good because, 
to make good in the work where you find yourself now becomes 
your qualification for the superior attainment. 



62 LESSON NO. 18 

You are a sending and receiving instrument and as you 
become closely associated with minds or individuals you are 
in tune with them, or as we would say, in rapport. The tuning 
fork is an example. If a certain key Were struck on a tuning 
fork and a piano were standing near, you would be able to hear 
the note on the piano corresponding to the one struck on the 
tuning fork. Just as surely as wireless telegraphy has been 
demonstrated as a success, just as scientifically is mental 
wireless working out the association of minds, when from a 
physical point of view the individuals may be far apart. 
Today, we recognize this fact that neither land nor water can 
separate us if we wish to get in rapport with each other. 

Like attracts like and if you entertain a spell of the blues 
or the mental attitude of a grouch you will find yourself to be 
in tune with all the blues and the grouches in town. Always 
remember this, that as you make volitional effort to get in 

rapport with another individual you should be careful to 
use the law of concentration or the means of telepathy 
constructively or for constructive work, for in so doing you 
are building your future or determining how the law of cause 
and effect shall operate in your life in the days to come. We 
may call that building karma. Never start anything the fullest 
effect of which you would not wish to rebound into your 
own life. 

Telepathy is the result of being in rapport with other 
individuals. How many times have you, when a child in school, 
watched another individual until they would turn and look at 
you ; or did you ever take down the telephone receiver to call 
a number and the operator would say, "Excuse me, but there 
is someone trying to get you"? Then, as you answered, you 
found it to be the party whom you had started to call. Did this 
just happen to be? Oh, no, not to the student today, for 
nothing just happens. You are on the same plane of vibra- 
tion or, in other words, vibrating on the same plane of 
thought ; one got the message first and acted upon it. We are 
always influencing and being influenced. This is how we are 
responsible for being our brother's keeper. It is the law 
operating back of association, or, in other words, we play a 
part in the life of each other, as we are in rapport with each 
other. For example, the mother and child. The mother's 
fears tend to create inharmony — disease in the body of her 
child. Telepathy is being demonstrated widely today and I 



LESSON NO. 18 63 

am convinced that the time is not far distant when we may 
say of mental wireless as of wireless telegraphy, that it is 
commercially dependable. 

A CONCLUSION OF THIS STUDY: 

Maintain a positive mental attitude toward the experi- 
ences of life. Outwit the habit of negativity toward Sugges- 
tion as early as possible. Increase your fitness by consistent 
thinking and a quick positive thought for constructive conclu- 
sions. Be governed, not by emotion or personal opinion, but by 
constructive decision. Then the high tides and the low tides 
of life will be equally appreciated. Thus shall you be in har- 
mony with your fellow-men and enjoy life more abundant. All 
laws are practical and understandable. 

Have you not known amid life's petty strife 

Some pure ideal of a noble life 

Which once seemed possible? Have you not heard 

The flutter of its wings and felt it near? 

It was. And yet you lost it amid the daily jar and fret; 

And now you seem to live idle, in a vain regret. 

But still your place is kept, and it will wait 

Ready for you to fill it, soon or late. 

No star is ever lost you once have seen, 

And you always may be what you might have been. 



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